William G. Coleman
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| Gender | Male |
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| Occupation | Environment, Sustainability & Natural Resource Management |
| Location | San Francisco, California |
| Introduction | After 40 years in environmental and sustainability management Bill now manages the nation’s largest industry-permitted Habitat Conservation Plan. He also teaches at UC Berkeley Extension in the Global Change Management program and serves on the board of the Ventana Wildlife Society. His main career (18 yrs) was at Electric Power Research Institute in Palo Alto. His education at the University of New Mexico focused on landscape ecology and environmental management, expanding to post graduate studies in social psychology and ecological economics. For more about his interest in genealogy (beginning in 1985), see his full profile here. |
| Interests | Bill’s work in genealogy began during the five years he lived in Washington, D.C., conducting family history research at the DAR Library, the US Archives and the Library of Congress. While traveling for work he expanded his research to include libraries and archives, historic houses and cemeteries across the eastern U.S. from Wisconsin to Main, south to Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey, Virginia, the Carolinas, then Tennessee and Arkansas. His most memorable experiences stem from his time traveling colonial Virginia -- from Williamsburg, Jamestown and Mount Vernon to the University of Virgnina in Charlottsville -- where recurring déjà vu and place memory demonstrated (he believes) recall of ancestral experiences at these locations. He has been a member of Ancestry.com since 1990 following the first release of Family Tree Maker. He is now conducting related research on genetic memory as recorded and expressed via epigenetic processes. |